437 km of road maintenance will be added to the country's artisanal roads: SICT

This is an automated translation of the press release issued in Spanish

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT) will maintain 114 artisanal or labor-assisted roads this year to support marginalized communities in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Durango, Nayarit, Sonora, Jalisco, Chiapas, Veracruz, Puebla, and Colima.

This was stated by the Undersecretary of Infrastructure, Juan Carlos Fuentes Orrala, after specifying that the program's goal is to build 437 kilometers. In the coming years, roads will be included in states such as Chiapas and Veracruz; "More will be built where necessary," he added.

The 10 entities where artisanal roads will be paved in 2025 are: 11 in Oaxaca (81 km), 71 in Guerrero (158 km), 7 in Durango (56 km), 5 in Nayarit (50 km), 5 in Sonora (24 km), 4 in Jalisco (20 km), 6 in Chiapas (28 km), 2 in Veracruz (10 km), 2 in Puebla (5 km) and 1 in Colima (5 km).

With this, Fuentes Orrala indicated, the paving of small roads that began under the previous administration will continue. The SICT will invest approximately 3 billion pesos, creating 6,775 jobs.

Through this program, resources are provided directly to the communities, whose residents—women and men—carry out the work through daily wages.

The federal government, through the SICT, provides the budgetary resources directly to the representatives of these communities to carry out these tasks.

The SICT advises on projects that benefit communities socially, economically, and economically, allowing residents to access health centers, schools, and other facilities, and making it easier for their products to reach other markets.

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